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“The Chairman did not adjourn the hearing, he recessed it. Ms. Lerner remains under subpoena. The Committee has not made any offer of immunity to Ms. Lerner. The Committee has, however, indicated a willingness to listen to any offers from her attorney about what she would testify to if it was offered,” Oversight Committee adviser Ali Ahmad told The Daily Caller.

“I don’t have any update for you on timing,” Ahmad said in regard to when Lerner will be called back before the committee.

Though Lerner, who apologized for her IRS division’s improper scrutiny of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status, can be called back before Issa’s committee without immunity, and even arrested if she doesn’t show up, Oversight seems to be taking a more diplomatic approach to get information out of her.

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Don’t give her any sort of immunity unless she’s willing to spill the beans on everything. I seriously doubt she was the instigator of what happened at the IRS, so she better cop to who gave the orders to go after conservatives and Tea Partiers.

You don’t grant immunity until you know exactly what the witness is going to say, and you know exactly what questions you’re going to ask the witness to get them to divulge that information in public, under threat of perjury for going back on their agreement. We’ll see if Issa’s House committee is smart enough to make sure they’ve got all their “I’s” crossed and “T’s” dotted on Lerner before they call her back, since she has shown past tendencies to be a tad partisan (and for an example of granting immunity and simply assuming the witness is going to tell you what you expect to hear, see Oliver North’s 1987 Iran-Contra testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee…)

You don’t grant immunity until you know exactly what the witness is going to say, and you know exactly what questions you’re going to ask the witness to get them to divulge that information in public, under threat of perjury for going back on their agreement.

jon1979 on September 25, 2013 at 9:00 AM

Word. It’s pretty obvious that she’ll go back on her word and lie her way out if she’s allowed to do it.

And, of course, once she’s out from under, she’ll be richly rewarded by the prog infrastructure.